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Work at DMA! — Join "Impact" Team

The IMPACT Team is a wonderful opportunity for college students to gain valuable teaching experience as interns at DMA Workshops!

We cover a full curriculum.
There’s a lot to it.

We offer a four-pronged curriculum:

  • Leadership
  • Conducting
  • Teaching
  • Performing

All students receive personalized instruction & feedback.

All students teach & command their peers during the workshop — key components to becoming  successful student leaders & drum majors.

DMA teaches students how to effectively conduct clear patterns with a focus on tempo maintenance.

We teach teaching: how to “clean” with the DMA procedure. Using marching basics as a vehicle, students learn to observe, analyze & correct their peers.

Effective communication is crucial. DMA provides each student daily opportunities for peer teaching with staff evaluation.

Being a leader means going the extra mile. It’s raising your hand “as high as you can” and then raising it 2 inches higher.

Work with the best!

  • Our workshops are led by world-class university professors and high school band directors.

  • Our staff brings years of experience to each location.

  • Students receive 1-on-1 training with music educators who are at the top of their field.

Keep scrolling and learn about our staff!

George N. Parks Drum Major Academy

Featured Guest Clinicians

Guest Clinician Tim Lautzenheiser.

Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser

Founder of Attitude Concepts for Today, Inc., a member of the Midwest Clinic Board of Directors, and the Western International Band/Clinic/American Band College Board of Directors.

Heidi Sarver, DMA Lead Teacher.

Heidi Sarver

Heidi I. Sarver is a Professor Emerita of Music and former Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Delaware.

Scott O’Neil

Scott is the Music Director of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dr. Lauren Reynolds, DMA Lead Teacher.

Dr. Lauren Reynolds

Lauren Reynolds is Associate Professor of Music & Director of Concert Bands at the University of Delaware.

Leadership is a defining quality.

We inspire your students to:

  • Lead
  • Learn
  • Grow


We do it by igniting a fire in your students, inspiring them to become their fullest selves.

We build leaders.

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Calling all Northeast Drum Majors! DMA will be at Westfield State in Massachusetts on July 26-29 — the only workshop we are offering in New England.